Norman R Rose worked as a psychiatrist in the Australian private and public systems for over 50 years until his retirement at the age of 80. He was a visiting psychiatrist at Prince Henrys Hospital in Melbourne. He was nominated as a Member of The American College of Sexologists. Dr Rose acted as a medical referee for the Commonwealth of Australia and became a foundation member of the Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. He is married with two children, three step-children and two inter-country adopted children as well as many grandchildren. He is active in the Anglican Church and the Focolare Movement.
This is an account of the life of a Jewish psychiatrist growing up in Melbourne, Australia in the 1940s and 1950s as a child of a traumatised immigrant mother who had a limited capacity for love. The consequence of this was poor self-esteem as well as an inability to become emotionally separate and ...
